“total abortion bans come at the cost of more than 36,000 residents per quarter.”
Source: Are People Fleeing States with Abortion Bans? | NBER (Link to page that links to the pdf of the study.)
Via Emily Peck, via Slate Money.
Category: News
2025-03-28 12:07
It’s warm enough that Ashley’s place in the sun is almost entirely in the shade.
2025-03-28 09:10
Daffodils and squills! The squills were my idea, but Jackie did most of the work in our little flower garden, except that the lilies, which won’t bloom for another couple of months, were left by the previous member.
2025-03-21 11:44
“… food delivery giant DoorDash announced a deal Thursday with buy-now, pay-later outfit Klarna, offering hungry consumers “the added convenience of Klarna’s seamlessly integrated, flexible payment options while shopping.”
Source: Almost Daily Grant’s Commentary
Of course. Who doesn’t think it’s a good idea to spread the cost of your lunch over a few weeks or months?
2925-03-21 08:55
Outside a Chinese restaurant near the Big Y, a big ol’ flock of (I think) Black Vultures. (Not Turkey Vultures, which are the only kind I can recognize.)
2025-03-14 17:37
The first crocus, the first squill, and the soon-to-be first dafodills.
2025-03-08 15:05
Ashley likes nothing better than tussling with another dog. In this case, with Roxie.
An AI app I’d find actually useful
I’d like an app that could take my various social media feeds, the RSS feeds I used to follow (until my feed reader broke), and the various news sources that I subscribe to, and find all the articles that I really want to read, and present them to me in a useful order.
Of course it needs to do a lot more than that. It should watch me read them, pay attention to which posts I linger on, which ones I follow internal links in, etc., and try to learn what I actually want to read. (And then give me more of that stuff in the future.)
It would also be nice if it noticed when I read something by a new person I don’t follow (because it was boosted by someone I do follow), and consider following that person as well.
And by “in a useful order,” I mean the AI should understand which articles are full of background information versus covering the latest breaking news, and present the background information first—unless it’s background information that I already know. In that latter case, it should just offer a link to the background information, in case I feel like I need a refresher. It should also present the information grouped by topic (so, news first, then economics/business news, then science news, then the very narrow sorts of cultural news that I want to read).
2025-03-03 10:39
For years I’ve heard about double-yoked eggs, but this is legit the very first time I’ve ever broken an egg and had it turn out to be double-yoked.
2025-03-01 9:29
On my way to UI Con.
